Disqus Python API Latest Comments

disqus.py

from django.conf import settings
from django.utils.dateparse import parse_datetime

from disqusapi import DisqusAPI

from .utils import smart_safe_excerpt


def get_latest_comments(limit=5):
    disqus = DisqusAPI(settings.DISQUS_SECRET_KEY, settings.DISQUS_PUBLIC_KEY)
    forum = 'simpleisbetterthancomplex'
    results = disqus.get('posts.list', method='get', forum=forum, limit=limit)

    comments = list()
    thread_cache = dict()

    for result in results:
        thread_id = result['thread']
        if thread_id not in thread_cache.keys():
            thread = disqus.get('threads.details', method='get', forum=forum, thread=thread_id)
            thread_cache[thread_id] = {
                'clean_title': thread['clean_title'],
                'link': thread['link']
            }
        comments.append({
            'id': result['id'],
            'author_name': result['author']['name'],
            'author_avatar': result['author']['avatar']['small']['permalink'],
            'date': parse_datetime(result['createdAt']),
            'message': smart_safe_excerpt(result['raw_message']),
            'thread_title': thread_cache[thread_id]['clean_title'],
            'thread_link': thread_cache[thread_id]['link']
        })

    return comments

utils.py

# coding: utf-8

from __future__ import unicode_literals

import bleach


def smart_safe_excerpt(value, max_length=100):
    '''
    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5235994/django-template-tag-to-truncate-text
    '''
    value = bleach.clean(value, strip=True, tags=list()).strip()

    if len(value) > max_length:
        truncd_val = value[:max_length]
        if not len(value) == max_length + 1 and value[max_length + 1] != ' ':
            truncd_val = truncd_val[:truncd_val.rfind(' ')]
        value = u'{}…'.format(
            bleach.linkify(truncd_val)
        )

    return value